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Great Barrington Declaration:
The most compassionate approach that balances
the risks and benefi ts of reaching herd immunity,
is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death
to live their lives normally to build up immunity
to the virus through natural infection, while better
protecting those who are at highest risk. We call
this Focused Protection
….
Those who are not vulnerable should immediately
be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple
hygiene measures, such as hand washing and
staying home when sick should be practiced by
everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold.
Schools and universities should be open for in-
person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as
sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults
should work normally, rather than from home.
Restaurants and other businesses should open.
Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities
should resume. People who are more at risk may
participate if they wish, while society as a whole
enjoys the protection conferred upon the
vulnerable by those who have built up herd
immunity.
Tyler Cowen:
Reopenings, to the extent they work, rely on a
government that so scares people that attendance
remains low even with reopening. In that sense, as
things stand, there is no “normal” to be found
…
An attempt to pursue it would most likely lead to
panic over the numbers of cases and hospitalizations,
and would almost certainly make a second lockdown
more likely. There is no ideal of liberty at the end of
the tunnel here
…
If you argue, as many herd immunity critics do, that
the elderly cannot be isolated, it seems you also
should not be entirely confi dent that the currently
non-infected can be isolated.
..
The brutal truth is simply that a Great Barrington
strategy put into practice would lead to rapidly
spiraling cases and a rather quick and oppressive
second lockdown, worse than what the status quo or
some improved version of it is likely to bring
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Tyler
Cowen: Reject the Great Barrington Declaration—
Noted
About Tyler Cowen:
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Cowen
has
argued that libertarians
‘
should embrace a
world with growing wealth, growing positive liberty,
and yes, growing government. We don't have to favor
the growth in government per se, but we do need to
recognize that sometimes it is a package deal
…’
‘
I generally favor much more immigration but not open
borders, I am a liberal on most but not all social issues,
and I am market-oriented on economic issues. On most
current foreign policy issues I am genuinely agnostic as
to what exactly we should do but skeptical that we are
doing the right thing
…’
